The Williamsburg property’s two-year contract with the LPGA expired after May’s Kingsmill Championship as tournament organizers, per a directive from the resort’s parent company, searched for a title sponsor.

Tournament director Wayne Nooe said Wednesday that the process is not complete, but the event’s website says next year’s event is scheduled for the traditional May date and that tickets will go on sale next month.

Greg Conrad, the LPGA's vice president of tournament affairs, confirmed the May date in an email to the Virginia Gazette.

Standard contracts between the LPGA and tournament venues are multi-year. Kingsmill officials are hoping for an agreement of more than two years.

The resort and LPGA have a complicated history.

The women's tour first came to Kingsmill in 2003 after the property's owner, Anheuser-Busch, discontinued sponsorship of its annual PGA Tour event, a Williamsburg staple since 1981. During a seven-year run, the LPGA tournament, a far less expensive venture, produced Hall of Fame champions such as Annika Sorenstam. Karrie Webb and Se Ri Pak.

But when Belgium-based inBev purchased Anheuser-Busch in 2009, it terminated support of the tournament. Following a two-year absence in 2010 and '11, the LPGA returned to Williamsburg in 2012 and '13 after Colorado-based Xanterra Parks and Resorts purchased Kingsmill.

The LPGA's Kingsmill Championship offered a $1.3 million purse in May, 41 percent less than the $2.2 million of 2009, the final year of Anheuser-Busch's support. Kingsmill's final PGA Tour event in 2002 had a $3.5 million purse.

"I think they all left impressed," he said in May. "The process is never as fast as you'd like it to be. It takes some time just to get people familiar with it and let them see how it works for them. … We're optimistic that there's someone out there that would like to partner with us."

Since returning to Kingsmill, the LPGA has continued to produce dramatic moments. In 2012, Jiyai Shin defeated Paula Creamer in a nine-hole, sudden-death playoff that spilled over to Monday; this year Cristie Kerr earned her third Kingsmill victory by besting Suzann Pettersen in a two-hole playoff.

Last year's Kingsmill Championship ended Sept. 10. This year's begins May 2. The short turnaround created some headaches for preparing the Williamsburg resort and its River Course for the LPGA Tour, but nothing like last year.

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